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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Farming & the land

Farming & the land, 1912

1,200 stories in Dubbo & the Western Plains's papers · page 36 of 60

The Dairy. Sweet Cream Butter. How to Make It

The Western Herald · Saturday 3 August 1912 · page 6

In the course of an instructive article on the manufacture of butter from What is known an sweet cream an English expert states that the general…

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The Wool Market

The Western Herald · Saturday 3 August 1912 · page 4

The Co-operative Wool and Produce Co., report:—The market remains very quiet, supplies being limited. Very little wool is arriving for sale, and owing to light…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. for the Man on the Lasmd

The Western Herald · Saturday 3 August 1912 · page 2

These Notes are issued every week, under the personal supervision of the Hon. J. L. Trefic, Minister of Agriculture, and are based mainly on the experiments of the Department. The Department can solve many problems concerning the land and production which would be impracticable to the individual producer…

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No. 65. Agriculture. Rotation Crops. The System at Bathurst Farm

The Western Herald · Saturday 3 August 1912 · page 2

THE rotation is such an important and integral part of the system practised at Bathurst Experiment Farm that it cannot fail to arouse the interest of…

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THE Western Heralad and Darling River Advocate. Saturday, August 3, 1912. The Farmers and the Liberals

The Western Herald · Saturday 3 August 1912 · page 4

UNDOUBTEDLY, the Farmers and Settlers' Association adopted a sensible course, when it decided to work in harmony with the Liberals, rather…

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Important Cattle Sale

The Wellington Times · Monday 5 August 1912 · page 3

Mr. Walter V. Gibbs will hold an important sale of cattle at the Nevertire trucking yards on Wednesday, 28th August, on account of Messrs. Hunt Bros…

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Sheep Sale at Mudgee

The Wellington Times · Monday 5 August 1912 · page 3

Messrs. Crossing and Cox will hold a sale of 5,500 sheep at the Mudgee sale yards on Friday, 16th August. The principal lines will be 6 and 8 tooth…

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Sydney Wool Report

The Wellington Times · Monday 5 August 1912 · page 4

Winchcombe, Carson, Ltd., report on 1st August:—We held our first sale of the new statistical year yesterday, and found the market in a very healthy…

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Successful Cattle Sale at Orange

The Wellington Times · Monday 5 August 1912 · page 2

Messrs. Bedford, Taylor and Weston, Ltd., report having conducted a very successful special cattle sale at the Corporation Yards, Orange, on Thursday…

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Homestead Farms

The Wellington Times · Monday 5 August 1912 · page 2

Four homestead farms have been made available on the Yeoval road, and the conditions are so easy for the man who wants to go on the land and make a…

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Wool Sales

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Tuesday 6 August 1912 · page 4

The A.M.L. and F. Co., Ltd., report under date 31st July:—The lost of [?] series of monthly sales was held this week, when small catalogues, totalling…

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High Prices for Sheep

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 6 August 1912 · page 2

The price of sheep is reaching such a high figure that a mutton chop is regarded as a luxury. At Homebush yards last week crossbred wethers from…

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The Wheat Outlook

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Tuesday 6 August 1912 · page 2

Harvesting will be started in the United Kingdom early next month, and fair yields are assured. Cannda and the United States are having too much…

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The Wool Market

The Western Herald · Wednesday 7 August 1912 · page 2

John Bridge and Co., Ltd., report: For our first sale of the now wool year we offered a small catalogue of 354 bales, consisting for the most part of a medium selection only…

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Farmers' Wheat Plots. Wheat Experiments of 1911

The Wellington Times · Thursday 8 August 1912 · page 7

Several features of importance will present themselves to farmers who carefully peruse the results of the farmers' experiment plots in 1911, as…

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Agricultural and Pastoral Notes. Harrow the Wheat. Why and When

The Wellington Times · Thursday 8 August 1912 · page 7

"Harrow your growing wheat, and harrow it now." That is the burden of a short paper in the Agricultural Gazette for…

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Serial Story. Romance of an Irish Farm Chapter Xxxiii

The Wellington Times · Thursday 8 August 1912 · page 8

The Josslyns' friends were clever as well as fashionable, people who travelled, and talked well of what they had seen, people who lavished more money…

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Farmers' Wheat Plots. Wheat Experiments of 1911

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 9 August 1912 · page 8

Several features of importance will present themselves to farmers who carefully peruse the results of the formers' experiment plots in 1911, as pub…

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Wool Market

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Friday 9 August 1912 · page 5

John Bridge & Co. report under date 8th August:—No auction sales have been held in any of the markets of the Commonwealth this last week, but the…

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Wool Report

The Cobar Herald · Friday 9 August 1912 · page 8

The Sydney Wool Selling Brokers' Association report to week ending August 3:— Auction sales were held in…

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